Question

A recent study report that in a random sample of 248 women, 58 had changed their political affiliation since the last election. It also reported that 120 in a random sample of 387 men had changed political affiliation. The researchers would like to know if these data provide convincing evidence that the proportion of changing political affiliation is greater for men than for women.

a. State the hypotheses of interest

b. identify the appropriate test and verify the condition that must be met

c. Is there convincing evidence that the proportion of changing political affiliation is greater for men than for women? Use a significance level of 0.05.

Answer 1

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